DNX

Earlier I posted about dotnet cli, which is a new command line tool which is going to replace DNX commands and it will be part of ASP.NET 5 RC 2 release. Since ASP.NET 5 is now ASP.NET Core 1.0, so not quite sure what would be the release name now but irrespective the name, it is expected to release this month only. I was playing with dotnet commands and noticed that dotnet run command is different from dnx run command. So in this post, you will see the difference between “dnx run” and “dotnet run”. (more…)

While working with ASP.NET 5 application using Visual Studio 2015, you may encounter an dnx project start up error in VS 2015 when you try to open a project. The error message says “The following error occurred attempting to run the DNX design time process (dnx-clr-win-x86.1.0.0-rc1-update1). No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it [::ffff:127.0.0.1]:63106”.(more…)

While working with ASP.NET 5 application using Visual Studio 2015, you may encounter an error “dnx runtime package needs to be installed”. And you might be scratching your head after successful installation of Visual studio and .NET framework, what else it needs. And re-installing Visual studio won’t help either. Let’s dive in for the fix.(more…)